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Goldman shares slump ahead of expected fireworks at Senate hearing Tuesday
Money & CompanyShares of Goldman Sachs Group fell to a 2 1/2-month low Monday ahead of the grilling company executives are expected to face on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Goldman stock dropped $5.37, or 3.4%, to $152.03. The percentage loss was the...... -
Goldman Sachs: Senate frustrations grow over execs' responses to questions
Money & CompanyThe frustrations from senators bubbled up quickly as they launched into questions revolving around Goldman Sachs’ complex financial transactions. The four Goldman employees on the first panel asked for time to read e-mails they were directed to in the... -
Goldman Sachs: Execs defend details of deals to skeptical senators
Money & CompanyGod, or the devil, is in the details, and Goldman Sachs executives illustrated that point Tuesday as they pushed to explain the nitty-gritty of their dealings to a Senate investigating committee. In their testimony, the four-person panel of witnesses... -
Goldman Sachs: Democrats push financial regulation bill
Money & CompanyDemocrats lost no time Tuesday raising the political issue of financial regulation as a Senate panel probed Goldman Sachs and its role in the financial meltdown. Panel chairman Sen. Carl Levin criticized Wall Street firms for lobbying against the... -
Kazakhstan's No Joke
KAZAKHSTAN PRESIDENT Nursultan Nazarbayev's visit with President Bush today has generated a good deal of attention, mostly for the wrong reasons. The government of Kazakhstan has been buying newspaper advertisements and TV commercials as part of a...Tags: Afghanistan, Politics, Table Tennis, Entertainment, Wars and Interventions
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Senate on verge of new agenda
Times Staff WritersWASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Wednesday began planning their return to power as the chamber's majority, capping their party's strong showing in the 2006 election by claiming victories in closely contested races in Montana and Virginia. The wins,...Tags: U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Career and Workplace, Jim Webb, Wages and Pensions
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Fair elections for Pakistan
Since 9/11, the United States has placed greater importance on backing a Pakistani leader who will fight Islamic terrorism than on encouraging democracy for that troubled nation. The result is a country that is no more democratic and is now dangerously...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, George W. Bush, Tom Lantos, Justice System
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Draft Democrats to help run Iraq
MIKE MURPHY is a Republican political consultant whose clients have included Arizona Sen. John McCain, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.PRESIDENT BUSH should spend less time worrying about the tangled politics of Iraq and more time mastering the equally fractured politics of Washington. The war in Iraq has become partisan — and partisan wars are impossible to fight successfully. The...Tags: Politics, Regional Authority, White House, Mitt Romney, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Democratic lawmakers will seek a phased withdrawal from Iraq
Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON — Democrats poised to take control of Congress said Sunday that they would press to begin a phased U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq within four to six months, part of an agenda aimed at overhauling key aspects of U.S. policy in the...Tags: Republican Party, Laws, White House, Syria, Entertainment
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Tell us another one, Mr. Vice President
CARL LEVIN, a Democratic senator from Michigan, is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.TO PARAPHRASE President Reagan, there he goes again. On Rush Limbaugh's radio program last week, Vice President Dick Cheney spoke about Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi and stated: "He went to Baghdad. He took up residence there before we ever...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein, Baghdad (Iraq), Wars and Interventions
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Don't dump Maliki
What does sovereignty mean? In the case of Iraq, Washington can't seem to decide. On June 28, 2004, the United States ceremoniously ended its occupation of Iraq by transferring sovereignty to its hand-picked interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi. Three...Tags: Peace Negotiations, Saddam Hussein, Muqtada Sadr, Iran, Hillary Clinton
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Why Congress didn't bring the troops home
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTo a crescendo of clicking cameras, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped before a row of shimmering U.S. flags last March to make an announcement Americans had been waiting four months to hear. November's elections had swept Democrats into power on a...Tags: Republican Party, Dick Cheney, Laws, John Boehner, Polls
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